Outline of rights
Overview of and topical guide to rights
The following outline is provided as an overview of and introduction to rights:
Rights – normative principles, variously construed as legal, social, or moral freedoms or entitlements.
Theoretical distinctions
- Natural and legal rights
- Natural law
- Positive law
- Social rights
- Social contract
- Claim rights and liberty rights
- Claim
- Entitlement
- Liberty
- Freedom
- Negative and positive rights
- Individual rights
- Group rights
Other divisions
- Three generations of human rights
- Civil and political rights and Economic, social and cultural rights
By claimant
Exclusive rights
Other types
- Digital rights (rights to use digital resources)
- Labor rights
- Linguistic rights
- Reproductive rights
- Right to arms
- Disability rights
- Marital rights
- Prisoners' rights
- Right to life
- Right to die
- Divine Right of Kings
- Unenumerated rights
- Equal rights
- Fundamental rights
- Right to vote
- Political freedom
- Freedom of assembly
- Freedom of association
- Freedom of movement
- Freedom of religion
- Freedom of speech
- Freedom of the press
- Freedom of thought
- Freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures, which is related to freedom of privacy
- Suffrage
- Scientific freedom
- Academic freedom
- Habeas corpus
- International law
- By religion
History
Related concepts
Movements
- Animal liberation movement
- Carers rights movement
- Children's rights movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- Disability rights movement
- LGBT social movements
- Fathers' rights movement
- Parents' rights movement
- Women's rights movement
Crimes against humanity
Notable people
Lists
- List of civil rights leaders
- List of disability rights activists
- List of LGBT rights activists
- List of opponents of slavery
- List of suffragists and suffragettes
- List of women's rights activists
Individuals
- Abraham Lincoln
- Andrei Sakharov
- Coretta Scott King
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Elie Wiesel
- Jimmy Carter
- Margaret Sanger
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Mohandas Gandhi
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Nelson Mandela
- Raoul Wallenberg
- Stephen Biko
- John Locke
- Confucius
- Voltaire
- Montesquieu
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Thomas Paine
- John Calvin
See also
External links
Rights at Wikipedia's sister projects
- Definitions from Wiktionary
- Media from Commons
- News from Wikinews
- Quotations from Wikiquote
- Texts from Wikisource
- Textbooks from Wikibooks
- Resources from Wikiversity
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)(1948); United Nations General Assembly.
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; article by Leif Wenar.
- WikiEd - Teacher's Rights
- International Freedom of Expression Exchange
- Comparative Analysis of Human Rights
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